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Places

Where the schools came from and where the fighters still come from.

Bangkok

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กรุงเทพมหานคร

Where a fighter's career is decided, regardless of where he is from.

Chaiya

ไชยา

An old town on the Gulf coast, once a seat of Srivijaya, now best known outside Thailand for a boxing style and a forest monastery.

Chiang Mai

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เชียงใหม่

The northern city, and the densest cluster of foreigner-facing gyms outside Phuket.

Isan

อีสาน

Twenty provinces on the Khorat plateau, Lao-speaking, the driest farmland in the country and the lowest household incomes.

Nakhon Ratchasima

นครราชสีมา

The largest province in Thailand by area and the entry point to Isan from the central plain.

Lanna

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ล้านนา

The northern kingdom — Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Phrae, Nan, Phayao — founded by Mangrai and independent of Ayutthaya and Siam for…

lanna

Uttaradit

อุตรดิตถ์

A northern province on the Nan river, home of Muay Thasao and of Phraya Phichai.